Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review

By Chrisanthi Avgerou. Journal of Information and Technology, 2008

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Digital innovation: A review and synthesis (2019, background): “Moving beyond the organization itself, the cultural and national context also shapes IS ‐ enabled organizational change efforts (Avgerou, 2001; Avgerou, 2008; Melville, 2010).”
Left to Other Peoples’ Devices? A Political Economy Perspective on the Big Data Revolution in Development (2017, background): “Understanding how market interventions are likely to shape economic livelihoods means welcoming ethnographic work on the acculturation of new technologies (Avgerou, 2008).”
“I’m not against online teaching, but what about us?”: ICT in Ghana post Covid-19 (2020, background): “Availability of telecenters which are equipped with computers and internet connectivity in a poor rural community can help in the integration of ICT in developing countries (Avgerou, 2008).”
ICT4D research: reflections on history and future agenda (2017, background): “Finally, Avgerou (2008) identified three discourses concerned with ICT4D with the last of these being a process of techno-organizational intervention associated with global politics and economics.”
Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response (2016, background): “development studies (Avgerou, 2008) and organization sciences (Leonardi, 2011).”